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Most archaeological discoveries are made by arduous searching; in age-old Rome they sometimes force themselves on the diggers' attention. This week the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano told about a catacomb that had to call for attention twice before it got noticed...
...Manresa to train for God's service as he had once trained for the duke's. He disciplined his body with torture and fasting, then turned to his mind, bending it to his will according to a self-imposed manual of mental arms. Out of this arduous retreat came the famed Spiritual Exercises, the course of disciplined mysticism that all Jesuits must undergo in a concentrated form for eight days each year, with rules for posture, breathing, concentration and contemplation. "I can find God at all times, whenever I wish," said Ignatius, "and any man of good will...
...time he painted Le Lorgneur, probably in 1716, Watteau was in his early 30s. Behind him lay an arduous apprenticeship to a Flemish painter in his native Valenciennes and his early struggles as a starving artist in Paris. Then two paintings of French army-camp scenes won him associate membership in the Royal Academy, and the greatest French collector of his time, Pierre Crozat, made room for Watteau in his own house...
...long ago, Harvard might still have accepted this student, provided he could meet the entrance requirements. Selection was simply a matter of weeding out the non-qualified applicants and accepting all the rest. This was not a particularly arduous task, since few students sought admission to the College. In 1941, for instance, 1,092 applicants were accepted from the 1,182 who applied...
More and more in the past year, Margaret has preferred small, equally formal gatherings at Clarence House. Her royal duties are less arduous than they once were, but she performs them all with conscientious care, managing to look always alert and interested during the windiest dignitary's speech, making her own speeches short and dignified, and flashing her warm smile discreetly where it is most needed. The greatest freedom she enjoys today is that of being able to go shopping alone with a lady in waiting in London's smartest shops. This pleasure, like others in the grown...